Inquiry over dental prioritisation claims
Health boss to face inquiry over favouring dental practice allegations.
Helen Hirst, director of primary care for Bradford and Airedale, has been accused of prioritising a new dental clinic in Ilkley over patients from poor areas.
John Watmough, a Bradford councillor (Cllr), has said he will question Ms Hirst at a area health meeting today, where the director will be giving a presentation about the provision dental services.
Cllr Watmough, a Lib Dem representative in Windhill and Wrose, has claimed that the government has failed to achieve its aims to provide universal access to NHS dentistry.
He added that just 58 per cent of the adult population had had treatment from an NHS dentist in the last 24 months.
Questioning the provision of the new Ilkley practice, which was established to give dental care to the town after it lost NHS clinics some years ago, Cllr Watmough said that dental standards were worse among poor communities and accused the government of knowing this but prioritising the middle class community of Ilkley anyway.
05 November 2009
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